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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skotothalamos" data-source="post: 7971485" data-attributes="member: 83398">And then all hell broke loose:3rd of Summer, year 500: Delft’s B Team followed up on a lead from informant Nilasa Hume regarding her employer, Heward Sechim, of Sechim Alkahest & Engravings. Nilasa told the team that Mr. Sechim had been threatened by two different groups of men who wanted to illegally acquire the powerful etching solvent Alkahest. Alkahest is in high demand for the new field of arcanoscientific technology, combining the technology of Danor with the magic of Risur for even more powerful machines. Nilasa thought the event might be related to the recent rash of factory fires in Parity Lake and hoped the constables would help.After meeting with Nilasa at The Thinking Man Tavern, the team staked out Mr. Sechim’s factory. Around 10pm, constable Glim Glim ambushed a carriage horse pulling a wagon on the road in front of the factory, apparently on a hunch. That wagon happened to be carrying firedust and firegems. Constable Zamfir attempted to apprehend Glim Glim for the unprovoked attack on a horse, but the gnome kept evading him, even after the four thugs in the wagon stabbed him many times.Meanwhile, Dr. Aubrey successfully surveilled two red Dragonborn emerging from Parity Lake (the body of water). These two seemed like the proper suspects, and Dr. Aubrey apprehended one of them without a fight (Suggestion spell on Valando after Eberardo ran past the illusion concealing Dr. Aubrey). The other engaged the RHC constables during their own altercation and successfully ignited the explosive wagon before escaping back into the lake. Constable Glim Glim perished in the explosion, which also caught three buildings on fire, including Sechim’s.Zamfir heroically toppled the water tower atop Sechim’s to control the blaze on that side of the street, but the Pemberton Firearms, Explosives, and More warehouse across the street could not be saved. The resulting inferno ripped through several city blocks leading to hundreds of deaths as workers locked in their factories could not escape.Security forces in the city of Flint are on high alert as the civil unrest threatens to rip over into full-on riots. The Kell Guild street gang is successfully spreading rumors that the RHC set the fire intentionally after murdering a horse. Public opinion of the Royal Homeland Constabulary is at an all-time low.On the bright side, maybe the arrested Dragonborn will tell us what he was up to and who hired him before his lawyer makes us release him since Dr. Aubrey apparently arrested him for swimming.-=-=-This was a complete mess. Glim Glim surprise sneak-attacked a carriage horse for no reason other than we were on a combat map. Zamfir's player went deep into roleplay and was just offended that this dude murdered a horse. The four arsonists dropped Glim Glim in three straight attacks thanks to 3 crits (with advantage). No one else was close enough to make a melee attack, so Zamfir tried Persuade to convince the arsonists he was just there to arrest Glim Glim. The gnome did not cooperate, and ended up unconscious adjacent to the cart when Eberardo breathed on it. It exploded the next round, killing Glim Glim.There was still the small remnants of a peaceful protest at one of the neighboring factories, and Glim Glim did his equicide right in the middle of the road. All four arsonists escaped after Eberardo pulled all the aggro. This weekend's event (after a dressing down by both Delft and Saxby) will be dealing with a protest being put on by Thames Grimsley. He and some dockers (the docker encounter from adventure one) have taken over a market square and will be putting on a parody of RHC policies, with a line of horses being led to the gallows. The first horse is two guys in a horse costume, but the other five are real. There are about two dozen bystanders just watching the show, including Rock Rackus and his entourage. We'll see if they can defuse the situation or just start murdering civilians (with a new constable to replace Glim Glim, and, I'm told, an actual appearance by the bard).</blockquote>

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